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Linux performance tools

Linux.com has a decent decent article highlighting a some tools for monitoring Linux system performance.


You’ll find many, many, many utilities for measuring and improving Linux system performance. The utilities discussed here are chosen because they’re widely available, and provide a good scope functionality. Also, I chose to avoid tools that have too steep a learning curve. As an example, SystemTap is a bit more complex than should be covered in an overview article. I left out some of the more basic tools such as ps and top because most Linux users are exposed to them fairly early on. And I didn’t try to tackle any application-specific tools.

Covered in the article are

  • The KDE System Monitor and GNOME System Monitor
  • dstat – an interesting sounding tool that can measure the “normal” thingls like CPU, memory, IO, etc. Via plugins it can also monitor “MySQL performance, Postfix, Sendmail, Qmail, and much more.”
  • “Sysstat is actually a collection of several utilities, including sar, iostat, mpstat, and pidstat.”
  • ifstate – for network monitoring
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